DEP/BRE/3/5/3 | Letter from [_?] Smith, Cairo, Egypt to Edwin Bramwell | He will send an abstract. | 27 Aug 1909 |
DEP/BRI/1 | Passport and homeopathy case of [William Bryce] | British Passport of William Bryce, MD given in London on the 10 October 1853 stating intent to travel to Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. Also included is a small homeopathy case with small glass vials of various homeopathic remedies, possibly also belonging to Bryce but unknown. Items were in envelope labelled 'Dr Williamson'. | [1853] |
DEP/CJN/2/1 | 'Clinical and Pathological Aspects of Typhus in the Services in Egypt' by John Wenman Crofton | Thesis for the degree of MD from the University of Cambridge, England. | Jan 1947 |
DEP/COJ/2/2/11 | 'Medicine and Surgery of Ancient Egypt' by John Dixon Comrie | | 1930s |
DEP/COJ/2/2/12 | 'Ancient Egyptian Surgery' by John Dixon Comrie | With list of lantern slides intended to accompany the talk. | 1930s |
DEP/COJ/2/5/2 | Illustrations collected by John Dixon Comrie | Includes photographs of: exterior winter scenes; Paris, France including Musée Dupuytren, Notre Dame, France and the monument to obstetrician Stéphane Étienne Tarnier; Egyptian wall paintings; Faculté de Médecine, Montpellier, France; Vienna, Austria-Hungary [Austria] hospital and university; Porta San Andrea, Genoa, Italy; a library and anatomy lecture theatres; Xenophon; pages of a medical text with prescriptions; and letter from the Interstate Medical Journal concerning Comrie's article on Pre-Hippocratic Medicine and enclosing two photographs, 1910; and two film negatives of the legs of a patient. | 1910-1930s |
DEP/COJ/2/5/4 | Illustrations collected by John Dixon Comrie | Includes book titled 'Arciconfraternita della Misericordia di Firenze'; album of photographs of St Gallena and Umgeburg; programme for a festival in the monastery of St Gallen, 1885; map of Montpellier, France; Het Nederlansch Gasthuis voor Behoeftige en Minvermegende Ooglijders gevestigd te Utrecht, 1908; and photographs of: works of art, some depicting medical situations; Wynford Eagle; Florence, Italy; Egyptian exhibits in the Museum of Antiquities; signatures on a 1764 charter; and the theatre at Ephesus. | 1885-1930s |
DEP/LAL/2/14 | War scrapbook of William Lindsay Lamb: Cutting titled 'V C for Crete Heroes' | From The Egyptian Gazette. Lamb has added a caption of information from 'Hunters from the Sky' by Charles Whiting (1975) about the poor resources of Freyberg's New Zealand and Australian troops and German losses. Page 14. | May 1941-1975 |
DEP/LAL/2/65 | War scrapbook of William Lindsay Lamb: Visit to Egyptian Typhus Hospital | Photographs show Lamb with Ian Gordon, medical specialist at 15th (Scottish) General Hospital, Van Royer, bacteriologist and Egyptian staff. Three of the photographs are not fully attached to the page. Page 53. | Jan 1942 |
DEP/LAT/1/24 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Medical Meteorology - Epidemic Constitution - Origin and... | Contains 'Amelioration and Prevention of Epidemics'; 'Course and Decline of Epidemics'; 'Etiology and Nosology of Epidemic Fevers' with extracts from a textbook on ochlotic fevers and the treatment of typhus, eruptive and enteric; 'Epidemics and Endemics'; and 'Diurnal Physiological and Meteorological Periods'. Also includes loose notes on the classification of fevers and poison epidemic; diagram exhibiting the progressive increase in London of diseases of the defecatory organs with increase of temperature 1842-1848; advertisements for Gerrard's disinfecting vaporiser and Condy's patent fluid; pamphlet 'Dr Laycock's Class - A Nosology of Fevers' with annotations, 1855; 'Contagion - the passage of germinal or living matter from one organism to another' by Dr Beale, 1865; 'The recent introduction of fever into Liverpool by the crew of the Egyptian vessel the Scheah Gehaed' by Dr Duncan, 1861; 'By-gone days of pestilence at York', 1844; 'The Logical Non-Contagiousness of Cholera' from the Indian Medical Gazette, 1874; letter from W M Campbell on the immunity accorded a district of Glasgow by the St Rollox Chemical Works; and small cuttings on waves of heat waves of mortality, origin of virulent diseases, the neutralisation of blood ferments, mortality amongst animals at Smithfield Show, influence of weather on health, on cheap disinfectant, the plague, the hour of death, temperature and disease, 1864-1875. | 1848-1875 |
DEP/LAT/1/45 | Lecture file of Thomas Laycock: Illusions - Hallucinations - Sleep - Dreams | Contains 'Illusions - Hallucinations - Delusion - Cognitive Phrenesis' with an extract from a textbook on morbid imaginations and morbid institutions; 'Imagination and Hallucinations'; 'Sleep - Dreaming and Sleeplessness'; a bibliography for hallucination; and loose notes on illusions, travelling priests, a Chaldean astrologer in Greece and an Egyptian prophet. Also includes case notes for patients with hallucinations 1864-1870; letter from F W Conner to Professor Laycock complaining of the voices he hears, 1873; letter to the editors of the Daily Telegraph from someone with the delusion of being able to separate body and spirit; letter from Dr Robert Elliot enclosing letters from Robert Robinson, a patient with insomnia, 1871; 'On dreaming considered especially in relation to insanity' by Thomas More Madded, 1867; review of 'From Matter to Spirit', 1863; and small cuttings on dreams, anaesthetics, religious illusion etc 1861-1874. | 1861-1874 |
DEP/MCC/1/3 | [Notebook 3 of Professor Ian McCallum] | A list on the front of the notebook gives the following contents: Thorndike Hist [History of Magic and Experimental Science by L Thorndike] 1958, 1934; Grataloli Alchem [Alchemiae Quam Vocant Artisque Metallicae Doctrina by Guglielmo Grataroli] 1572; Bignami-Odier J de R [ Etude sur Jean de Roquetaillade] 1952; Lucas Cosmetics [Cosmetics Perfume and Incense in Ancient Egypt by A Lucas] 1930; Petrie Vases [Stone and Metal Vases by W M F Petrie] 1937; Baker Iewell of Hlth [The newe iewell of health by George Baker] 1576; Fernelli Univ Med [Universa medicina by Fernelli Ambiani] 1581; Warren Schistosom [Schistosomiasis: The Evolution of a Medical Literature by K S Warren] 1973; Grevin Venins [Deux livres des venins by Jaques Grévin] 1568; DNB Mayerne [DNB entry on Sir Theodore Turquet de Mayerne] 1903/1894; Celsus De Med [De Medicina] 1938; Enc Brit Steiner [Rudolf Steiner] 1960; Enc Brit Neoplat/Hermes/Lull [neoplatinism/Hermes Trismegistus/Ramon Lull]; Treue Doct ct [Doctor at Court by Wilhelm Treue] 1958; Crawford Chas II [The Last Days of Charles II by R Crawford] 1909; Hutchinson Arch Surg [Archives of Surgery by J Hutchinson] 1891; Jacobi Paracelsus 1951; Millar Obs Sb [Observations on Antimony by John Millar] 1774; James Fevers [A Dissertation on Fevers by R James] 1749; James Gout/Rheum [A Treatise on the Gout and Rheumatism] 1745; Lindeboom B'Haave [Herman Boerhaave by G A Lindeboom] 1968; Glauber Pharm Spag [Pharmacopoeia Spagyrica by Johann Rudolf Glauber] 1654; Castiglioni Hist [A History of Medicine by Arturo Castiglioni] 1947; Poynter Yonge [The Journal of James Yonge ed by F N L Poynter] 1963; James Dicty [A Medical Dictionary by R James] 1743; Wootton Pharm [Chronicles of Pharmacy by A C Wootton] 1910; Frank Ward diaries [The John Ward Diaries by Robert Frank] 1974; Glauber Works 1689. | 1990 |
DEP/MCC/1/6 | [Notebook 6 of Professor Ian McCallum] | A list on the front of the notebook gives the following contents: Ferguson Pharmy [Early History of Pharmacy by T Ferguson]; Scott biogy [Michael Scott biography]; Suchten 1570 [De Secretis Antimonii by A von Suchten]; Cowen Ed Pharm [The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia by D L Cowen]; Paracelsus Suchten; Gordonio 1559 [Lilium Medicinae by Bernard Gordonio]; Jenner 1822 [A Letter to Charles Henry Parry by E Jenner]; Millar 1774 [Observations on Antimony by John Millar]; Sarton 1948 [Introduction to the History of Science by G Sarton]; Colwell Lockyer [Lionel Lockyer by Hector Colwell]; Crellin Lockyer [Lionel Lockyer by J K Crellin]; Lucas 1962 [Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries by A Lucas]; Moncrieffe R Scr [Account of an Alchemical Roll by William Moncrieff]; Burland 1967 [The Arts of the Alchemists by C A Burland]; Buchan 1774 [Domestic Medicine by William Buchan]. | 1992-1994 |
DEP/PAR/1/1 | Stamp album of Ronald Paley, volume 1 A-Be | The stamps depict Dr Stella Abidh, Trinidad and Tobagow, 1980; Dr Frederico Lleras, Colombia, 1977; Aesculapius, Greece, Romania, Spain, Algeria and Cyprus 1932-1977; Dr Alvira Alvim, Brazil, 1963; Dr Jose Ignacio Quevada Amaya, Colombia, 1967; Ferdinand Ritter von Arlt, Austria, 1937; Leopold Auenbrugger von Augenbrugg, Austria, 1937; Avenzoar [Abd-al-Malik ibn-Zuhr], Syria, 1968; Averroes [Abu L Walid Muhammad ibn-Ahmed ibn-Rushd], Spain,Egypt and Syria 1967-1979; Avicenna [Abu 'Ali Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina], Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Dubai, Kuwait, Poland, Pakistan, Yemen, Algeria, East Germany, Russia, Egypt, Comoros, Mali, Libya and Turkey 1948-1981; Victor Babes, Romania, 1957-1962; Hastings Kamuzu Banda, Malawi, 1964; Frederick Grant Banting, Switzerland and Kuwait, 1971; Robert Barany, Austria and Sweden 1974-1976; Christian Nethling Barnard, South Africa, 1969; Ignacio Barraquer, Spain, 1984; Agostina ario Bassi, Italy, 1953; Edoardo Bassini, Italy, 1977; Antoine Beclere,France, 1957; Hulusi Behcet,Turkey, 1980. Loose at the front of the volume is a photograph of the Afghan Avicenna stamps with certification by the Royal Philateic Society that they are genuine. | c1984 |
DEP/PAR/1/2 | Stamp album of Ronald Paley, volume 2 Be-Br | The stamps depict Emil Adolf von Behring, Germany, West Germany, Sweden, Grenada, Liberia, Mauritania, Bhutan and Bolivia 1940-1978; Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, Russia 1952; Claude Bernard, France and Argentina 1939-1978; Pierre Eugene Marcelin Berthelot, France 1927; Claude Louis Berthollet, France 1958; Charles Herbert Best, Kuwait 1971; Norman Henry Bethune, China 1960-1979; Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, France 1959; Dr Wladislaw Bieganski, Poland 1957; Theodor Bilharz, Egypt 1962; Christian Albert Theodor Billroth, Austria 1937; Elizabeth Blackwell, United States of America, 1970; Laszlo de Blaskovics, Hungary, 1972; Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bogomolets, Russia 1971; Lorenz Bohler, Austria, 1985; Jules Bordet, Belgium, Ivory Coast, Sweden 1971-1979; Alexander Borodin, Russia 1951; Sergei Petrovich Botkin, Russia 1949-1982; Desire Eugene Eduoard Branly, Czechoslovakia, 1959; Pierre-Fidele Bretonneau, France, 1962. | c1984 |
DEP/PAR/1/6 | Stamp album of Ronald Paley, volume 6 Ha-Ko | The stamps depict William Harvey, Russia, Argentina, Grenada and Transkei 1957-1982; Ferdinand von Hebra, Austria 1937-1974; Ernst Heim, West Berlin 1984; Hermann von Helmholtz, West Berlin 1971; Franz Hemerijckx, Belgium 1975; Emil Holub, Czechoslovakia 1952; Health, Australia 1988; Sir Joseph Hooker, British Antarctic Territory, 1985; Bernado Houssay, Argentina 1976; Ales Hrdlicka, Czechoslovakia, 1969; Dr Albert Hustin, Belgium 1977; Joseph Hyrtl, Austria, 1937-1984; Ali Ibrahim, Egypt 1980; Imhotep, Egypt 1928-1968; Joseph Imre, Hungary 1972; Jan Ingen-Housz, Netherlands, 1941; Jabir ibn Hayyan, Syria 1968; Leander Starr Jameson, Rhodesia 1967; Eugene Jamot, Cameroon, Gabon and Upper Volta 1954-1979; Julius von Jauregg, Austria 1957; Edward Jenner, Britain, 1999; Henryk Jordan, Poland 1957; Carl Jung, Switzerland and Granada 1973-1978; Moritz Kaposi, Hungary 1986; John Keats, Britain 1971; Sir Frederic Truby King, New Zealand 1957; Emil Kocher, Switzerland and Sweden 1967-1969. | c1984 |
DEP/PAR/1/11 | Stamp album of Ronald Paley, volume 11 Koch | The stamps depict Sir Luke Fildes, United States of America and Dominica 1947-1970; Robert Koch, Afars and Issas, Djibouti, Albania, Bulgaria, Argentina, San Marino, Bahamas, Benin, Gabon, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, Thailand, French Polynesia, Wallis and Futana Islands, Belgium, Cayman Islands, Egypt, Central African Republic, Congo Republic, Chile, China, Taiwan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Cyprus, Chad, Danzig, France, Andorra, India, Sri Lanka, Germany, West Berlin, Ghana, Guinee, Guyana, India, Maldive Islands, Ivory Coast, Afghanistan, South Africa, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mexico, Monaco, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, El Salvador, Sao Tome and Principe, Syria, Morocco, Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Surinam, Sweden, Upper Volta, Switzerland, Tanzania, Yugoslavia and Zaire 1939-1983. | c1984 |
DEP/PEJ | Collection of John Pearson | | 1790-1817 |
DEP/PHR/6/11 | Certificate of Doctor of Medicine from an Egyptian University awarded to Robert Philip | Originally in cardboard tube labelled 'Hon MD Egypt'. Text in Arabic. | 1920s |
DEP/PHR/7/10/6 | Photograph of Dr A Aziz and Sir Robert Philip in Memphis, Egypt | Photograph shows the house. | 20 Dec 1928 |